NIGHT LIFE: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection

Tucked away in the Appalachian mountains lays a small town where old folk gods and creatures with long forgotten names live frighteningly entangled with the humans who call it home.  Quick. Take the clawed hand of your guide, slip into the skins of the town’s inhabitants, and let this eerie collection of folk horror poetry ensnare you and awaken you to the coming rapture of the world.

Multi-award winning poet Alba V Sarria debuts a folk horror collection spoken through the unusual eyes of 2nd and 1st person that weave together a spell-binding hymn for the love of all things monstrously divine. This is a read for a lone dark night.

Night Life is a collection of strange—sometimes tender, sometimes chilling, sometimes bloody— encounters with folk horror-like creatures. 

"Lyric prose weaving into the shape of beasts— the reason your Appalachian mamaw tells you not to look into the woods after dark. For everyone who has ever loved a monster and prayed it would love you back. Absolutely beautiful." —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times Bestselling author of HELL FOLLOWED WITH US and THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH

"NIGHT LIFE  is folk horror distilled down to its rawest, most primal element: a knowing that doesn’t exist outside the backwoods, byways, and those places forgotten by time and feared by man. There is love and death and worship bound up in Sarria’s quietly fierce poetry. Bloody and haunting, this collection is perfect for anyone who hears whispers in the forest, feels eyes on them in the night, or shies away from dark waters’ touch."  —Siggy Chambers, author of THE BINDING OF BLOOM MOUNTAIN

Content Warnings: Note that not every poem in this collection contains all or any of these content warnings. If you would like to know which content warnings go with which poems feel free to reach out to the author. Stalking, blood, organ mention, organ eating, dubious con, mention of dead animals (owl), monster/once human body horror, half-formed fetus, decomposing bodies mention, brief mention of a monster eating poisonous berries on purpose. 

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